Joakim currently works as a senior code monkey at Tradeshift in Copenhagen churning out code and is a firm believer in agile and test-driven development. He has been a big part of building the Tradeshift platform, and has contributed to a number of open source projects and is a Certified SpringSource Trainer.

In the early days of a startup, you're often focused on writing a lot of code and getting features out. You probably know about the whole devops movement, continuous deployment, etc, but there's rarely time to actually implement these things fully. However, in order to grow, you have to be quite certain that you keep the quality of your software up, and that you don't have too many manual processes involved in the development, testing, and deployment of your software.

In this talk we'll take a look at some of the main milestones in how Tradeshift moved from manual deployment processes to automation and also what this means in terms of organizational scalability, technology, transparency, and culture.